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THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1948

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Hes By NOBLE REED oP Activity was stepped up today! Brit sh Agre behind the unannounced candi-|

dacy of U. 8. Senator William E.| ; .

Sleeping ‘Quarters Overcrowded; a

als . : . : Ceiling Plaster Falling Down Jenner for the GOP Governor) ER Stalls Traffic nomination in order to meet Gov-| is ny a N -~ To Revoke Tax (Fourth of a Series of Articles. Editorial, Page 22) ernor Gates’ newest challenge for| ee a TE Lo) an open fight. ;

on U.S. Films

Hollywood Offers To Resume Exports

By RICHARD LEWIS

Bedtime at Julietta starts immediately after supper. struggle for control of the Re-| The inmates have an hour to dispose themselves in their|fublican Party in Indiana were

crowded dormitories. Then the lights go out.

I had arrived at Julietta, the Marion County Home for |¥il! support Walter Helmke, Ft.

Battle lines on a fight-to-finish |

{drawn by Governor Gates’ formal! announcement last night that he|

Wayne attorney, for the guberna-!

Upto an Hour

Drivers Warned Of Slick Roads

N. Mah oT (UP) the Aged, as a vagrant looking for a job. I had been sent itorial nomination. | $ 3 n . 1 3» ~ ox ve 1 . Oh announced to-| tO the kitchen as a probationary assistant cook. Eh Sen oe Sontiaved, 8am ..18 12 (Noon) 20 The gove After watching the skimpy fare being prepared and served, I washington today without for-| 9am ..18 1p m..2

day a new four-year AngloAmerican film agreement under which Britain will revoke its 75 per cent tax om foreign film

profits. Harold Wilson, president of the Board of Trade, told Commons that American producers will lift their export of United States]

films. The agreement was completed |

py Mr. Wilson and Eric John-|

ston, president of the Motion Pic-|

followed the inmates to their “residence” quarters.

them.

These were/mal announcement, his support-| overcrowded, rooms with cracked plaster where iron cots were ers opened full-scale operations) jammed so close together an adult could hardly squeeze between /!n VEry county in the state.

x | The lights went out shortly after 7 p. m. in the dormitories and]

McHale Plans

Democratic high commana] {strategy in its whole 1948 cam-|

day rooms. The corridors were illuminated dimly and lights still] burned in the inmates’ kitchen, |°0

|sitting or standing in the corridor Paign was based upon a presump-| the first floor simply stared tion that Sen. Jenner will be the

into space. They seemed to be OPPosition.

Inmates who were not ready t0| waiting, sitting and waiting.

go to bed sat in the halls onj wooden park benches, or stood|}y

One old gentleman rocked slow- tional committeeman from Indiback and forth in one of the|ana, attending a conference in leaning on their canes or against! 4arkened day rooms, facing the Washington today, outlined Hoo-|

{| Frank McHale, Democratic na-

LOCAL TEMPERATURES |

Indiana today was digging its way out of the deepest snow in nine years with con/ditions forecast to get worse {as temperatures drop to near (zero tonight. | Trafic was nearly paralyzed {during the early morning hours. A storm that started about 11

{o'clock last night piled up snow

iation of America, yes-| |sier Democrats’ thi ture Associa Yes- walls. |window. Outside, the lights of] mocra nking on the |five and a half inches deep

ferday after 10° days of confer| myore was little conversation. moving traffic made a dull glow Subject.

ences. | Most of the 50 inmates who were on U. 8S. 52.

“Republicans in Indiana might |

Principal Points The principal points covered, Mr. Wilson said, were: : ONE: The tax will be withdrawn as cuickly as the necessary order can be carried through, and the normal export of American films will be resumed as soon | as possible thereafter,

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come effective June 14 to be in effect four years, with provision for review after two years. THREE: American producers) during the first two years of the agreement may take out of the country $17 million a year on| earnings of both new American films and those already in Britain. 3 92 45 FOUR: Additional dollars may ® be taken out to the equivalent of British film profits in the United States. ble self suspenders FIVE: Afy ‘remaining. fim ly earnings in Britaffy may be spent in the sterling area, if permission 4-pocket is granted by a joint control # board composed of representail AE tives of the British government quality, top shying and the American motion picture tat the expense o industry. , in the season's new: f fully tailored whip: Have them in BLUE

ances remain, “cleared by an agreed transaction not involving any strain on the foreign exchange position of the United Kingdom ‘or creating a further claim on sterling.” The agreement ended a seven-

ORD" GABARDINE CKS,; of Sanforized, rcerized heavy cotton § y weave twill, styled & ve! Blue, brown, and

British theaters of films, started a drastic economy wave in Hollywood and made a heavy drain on Britain’s dwindling dollar . resources.

Author's Widow, 8 Others Killed

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‘This Ain't No Kind of a Job

as well quit fussing about Jenner)

jtprohighons most of Indiana. | Indianapolis citizens struggled in the worst transportation snarl

TWO: The agreement will be- P

SIX: Should any further bal-| they may be]

months deadlock that has starved |

getting their gubernatorial nomi-| nation,” he said. i “He (Jenner) is going to be the! {nominee and if he is elected he; iplans to appoint House Majority After an hour or so, my supper Leader Charles Halleck as Senlof pasty noodles, white bread and ator 8 his place,” asserted Mr.| cHale.

Now and then the sound of paid no attention to the outirate voices rose dm the dormi-|pursts. tories. Then an old man appeared into the hallway, hobbling along as fast as he could go, another i oldster brandishing a cane in| chicory-coffee seemed to have, : ‘ ursuit. |vanished. I bought some cough| May Keep Gates I witnessed two of these alter-|drops from a commissary oper-| The Democratic leader predict-| cations that evening. An elderly|ated by an elderly employee inled the Republicans would give| attendant sibdued the embattled|his room. {Hobart Creighton, speaker of the ones with loud threats he would! Then I sat down on the bench Indiana House of Representalock them up in barred cells with|beside an old man and offered tives, the lieutenant governor| the rest of the “nuts.” {him some. He was hard of hear-| nomination. : “How would you like this job?”|ing, but recognized the gesture, ‘And maybe if Gov. Gates isa’ © he demanded. “This ain't no kind|and shook his head. {good boy they will let him stay : rR Fak of a job.” | “Prefer to chaw, he said. On as national GOP chairman,” =& ta i Inmates seated in the corridors! “Keeps the hunger down better,” \|Mr. McHale said.

about the food Oe owe Mm e . labored | night, Gov. Those who answered the qlery 20ared tathing. pr Anes ter] “I shall support Mr. He oh tion had a long recital of com-|lows?” I asked the attendant.” {[Of EOVernor of Indiana. plaints. Some just stared, others| He shrugged. Clears Doubt turned away. One began to laugh| “They either get better or they, This cleared away all the doubt] and couldn't stop, He walked die,” he said. “Not many o° 'em on the policy of the State House| back along the corridor to the!get better. They ship 'sm down! ‘palace . guard” regarding the| toilet and stood there, laughing. |here from City Hospital and battle with the Jenner forces. | Dormitories line one side of the Central State. Don’t know what The die was cast. corridor. Barred cells lined the they expect us to do with em.” | Pleas Greenlee, chairman of the other. Inside the cells, I saw| I asked how often the doctor/Indiana Democrats who have not| one old man with disheveled comes to look at them. |yet fixed their alignments for! white hair crouching like an! “He never comes,” said the at-/fheir own Governor candidates,| animal. |tendant. “There's supposed to be|said he didn't “take much stock” | Another lay on.a mattress ona county doctor come here twice in Gov. Gates’ support of Mr. the floor. Another lay on an iron|a week. Maybe he does up in the Helmke. cot. It was too dark to see their|hospital part. He don't come | “The Governor is. just shadow-| |faces, but I could see their eyes. down here.” : | boxing,” Mr. Greenlee said: “When |

! ’ the chips are all down the GOP|§ ‘Pinch-Hitting’ Seems to Be Rule on Jobs

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ter 6f Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn Chapman.

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convention will be for Jenner and {so will all the other machine poli-

McHale and | |

The attendant admitted, how-| while. Then skip into town. ticlans.” M , he w | There's nothin’ to do in the . Mr. , ever as not Teguarly Of kitchen. I get off whenever I|Greenlee expressed confidence! 4 duty there. He was “sort of _. .= {that President Truman’s popu-|

pinch-hitting.” | On the other hand, I found in-|1arity will return by election time “Pinch-hitting” seemed to be mates who complained they had and that he will- carry Indiana general throughout the institu-|to do work beyond their strength.|and the state ticket across with tion. A baker was “pinch-hit-| Another employee told me: thim.

In Carolina Fire

ET, ASHEVILLE, N, C, Mar. 11

ting” as cook in the inmates’| “I feel “Sen. Jenner will not be electad { kitchen. | fellows. They don’t have long to Governor in November,” Mr.| | A woman dining room at-go. It's a shame they have to Greenlee said.

sorry for these old

Photos by Victor Peterson, Times Stafl Photographer.

tag Academy last] 43J3 English Ave., is exactly three feet eight and five-eighths inches tall. Here the Apld: | 5.year-old snowgirl wallows happly in the drifts in Christian Park. She is

{of the winter this morning when {busses and trolleys were delayed 20 minutes to as much as a hour {on some lines.

Cars Creep Along

Automobile traffic was down {to a snail's pace as cars piled up for blocks in the deep snow, © | The weather bureau forecast i |conditions will get worse later | [today with more show continuing juntil tonight, raising the depth to - {about six inches. This will be : {two inches more snow than the a go | worst of the winter, last Feb. 3, a : 1 {when it was four inches. re | The heavy snowfall moved into Indianapolis and vicinity under

Mr. Creighton, at present, is | . aise * \ conditions somewhat similar to Questions on Food Start Complaint Recital the third GOP candidate for gov-| THE BIG SNOW—The nearly six-inch snowfall today looked ighty big fo: |Sonditlons | meuhiat am > {ernor in a {hEse-way contest with| anyone, but especially so to those who had to shovel it and to tots who could romp |snow earlier this Winter, Tecory 1'made the rounds, talking to; Their eyes, Te pen ane they Sen pop 3 Mr. Setmue at| in it. According to the mark on the family hot water heater, little Marina Chapman, Forecast Light Fall one inmate after another, asking|stared. u uttered noi < ?

Yesterday Weatherman Paul A. Miller issued & forecast for this Jvicinity of occasional light snow. He said yesterday that i apolis was on the edge of a ¢old mass stretching to the North &nd {that a low pressure area from the South over-running the high would bring light snow here. New York's forecast before its record fall was similiar, “occasional light snow.” The 5%-inch snow today was the deepest since Feb. 26, 1939, when the precipitation reached 7.2 inches. Zero temperatures tonight would not set a record for March. {It was 6 below here on Mar, 8, 11943. x { Swirled. Into Drifts | High winds swirled the snow |into impassable drifts on some | highways. State police warned 2 | that all roads were dangerous, {with packed snow forming slip|pery surfaces everywhere. All the city's street department {manpower was dispatched into | service early today to clear the {streets and scatter grit on the {ice in an effort to keep traffic | moving. | Street graders were used . to

the daugh-.

(UP)—Nine women patients, in-| tendant was pinch-hitting as cook spend their last days in a dump

{scoop snow off the center trafic

cluding the widow of novelist F.| Scott Fitzgerald, were killed to-|

in the employees’ kitchen. like this.

1 wish the people who! That seemed to be one of the run this County had to live off| pA [ed ene

reasons I was able to pinch hit so/ what we feed out here.”

[lanes and into the gutters where [truckers will haul it off. The

day as a holocaust of fire gut-| ted one of the main buildings of the Highland Hospital for nervous diseases. | Two other patients were in-| jured critically, and one suffered | a sprained ankle in leaping from! a porch. Twenty-nine women patients) ® = = ) x = = were in the three-story building! when fire broke out in the diet] : £8 { kitchen about midnight. { | The building was one of fou the mental hospital which. is operated as a psychia-| tric unit of the Duke University] Hospital at Durham, N. C. It was| reduced to a hollow shell of stone

easily as assistant cook. You, I asked some of the inmates if couldn't tell the pinch-hitters| maybe they wouldn't like to play [from the players. | checkers. One employee told me: | But there wasn't even a game “It's easy around here. You|of checkers at the poorhouse. don’t have to work if you don’t] (Tomorrow—An interview with| want to. Just be around for a the superintendent.) |

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isnow then will be dumped into { manholes. | The State Highway Commission sent out all motor-powered plows to the main highways but {most roads were in dangerous | condition. | The worst jam in Indianapolis’ {transit system was on College {Ave.,, where streetcars were {stalled for more than an hour when packed snow clogged the rail switches. At least four busses stalled on their runs early today and passengers had to be transferred to others. Most trains through here were

For House Agent

WASHINGTON, Mar. 11 (UP) —The chairman of a House Ap-| propriations Subcommittee said today that a committee investi-| gator had received an anonymous death threat as a result of an in-| vestigation of the Internal Revenue Bureau,

The disclosure was made on the PRELUDE TO SPRING — Just 10 days short of the House floor by Rep.-Gordon Can-| day when man's hopes and loves are supposed to spring field (R. N. J). He said the in-| oiocoa Mother Nature blanketed Indianapolis with -a

LESSON FOR YOUNGSTERS — Frank Wolsiffer,

1632 S. Meridian St., is |

vestigator, Robert Lee, got a tel-| not one to grumble about

and twisted steel.

Reds Stir Labor In Southern Italy

ED-SHRUNK AND EPELLENT

‘ZIPPER JACKETS

leged police voters in Puglia province.

meetings might be a prelude to

General Labor Confederatio they control as

ROME, Mar. 11 (UP)—South-|¥ ern Italian Communists today called upon labor to demonstrate Sunday in protest against alintimidation of |

Authorities feared the protest|§

general strike, with the Communists using the six-million-man

a campaign weapon for the Apr. 18 national

ephone call from an anonymous person threatening to “blow his| head off.” | Mr. Canfield did not immedi-|

committee sources said an investigation is under way.

on Tuesday issued a.report charg-| ing Internal Revenue employees] {with loafing on the job, ineffi{ciency and carelessness. The| | bureau, it said, suffers from the! political patronage system. Committee Chairman Jobn Tabor (R. N. J.) confirmed the death threats against Mr. Lee, |

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{12 die in airliner crash at Chicago ..

heavy mantel of white. In a few short weeks this creek through Garfield Park will have doffed its snowy cape for green and the colorful hue of flowers.

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82 years old.

Floating Shoe Is Death Clue

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after shooting and

a light or heavy snow. He's

{shoe found floating in the wreck-|

| delayed nearly two hours during the night when snow and cold jammed the rail switches. Passenger planes were landing and taking off here close to their usual schedules. Snow on the runways: was light and the heavier craft plowed through it

! HONOLULU, Mar. 11 (UP)—A|Without danger. ! : The first casualty was John

|Allen, 37, of 5012 E. Washington

age of a plane today was iden-g; ‘who slipped and fell at West g tified as that of Army Pvt. Samuel and Washington Sts. He was vA. Vong, 24, who deliberately knocked unconscious for a Lime.

crashed his plane into the ocean

critically Ro cael Conditions:

story crireressiineiieiienaennaeniieneee ne Page 21 wounding his bride of two weeks.

Police

said the soldier, who vas Snow, Ice, Slush

| sa = = : ona A on | elections, Russ Threaten Bolt Nine headquarters listed in Times ‘sewing contest. .Page 27 (of Chinbse descent, fired four bul-| ; | 3 Pa ! a #8 = : Co |lets into the head of his estranged] Here is roundup of highway 20 ; 3.98 50-Cent Drop Noted Of Palestine ley \Bettenhausen, Snowberger ih 500-mile race’. . . other bride, Rose, 20, during an argu-| conditions in various sections of I . NEW YORK, Mar. 11 (UP)—| i Page 30 ment Tuesday night about a di- Indiana as reported by the stats fod n Hog Prices Here Russia said today it would boy-| spo Cr here Ae AREER SEE ERE AN SE {vorce she planned to get. | police today: o woathor-so2 Hog prices dropped here slight- cott the emergency big power “= » iy. aa . | ‘Wong left a note saying he was, Dunes State Park — Snow in tested for wear and ly today, but throughout the rest talks on Palestine it the Arabs| A Key fo Other Features on Inside Pages “Sorry it all had to happen this north. Roads covered with shish y of the netoin prices dropped more and Jews were called In for con-| =~ oo. 24 Crossword .. 31 Labor ...... 13 Ruark ..... 21{Way. What else can a guy do if and freezing. ness! - sharply as farmers stepped up fuitatiovs, Eddie Ash.. 30 Editorials... 22 Movies ..... 24! Side Glances 22 his wife doesn’t love him?” _ Ligonier—Snow falling over ized for comfork Shipments le market. ih face of Andrel Gromyko of Russia) CV" "" yi| maghions ... 26| Obituaries .. 5|Soclety ..... 28, [———p=———Co—=="" part of district. with no report of sized : for coméot © packinghouse strike deadline. Stated the Soviet position at tlely,,.." " 27| Financial .. 19| F.C.Othman 21| Sports .. 30-31 Goshen Baby Dies hazardous driving. : large convenient p At Indianapolis Stockyards third closed meeting of the big, sified 35-38| Forum 22| Patterns ... 27| Washington. 22| . . Lafayette—Roads covered with ipper : front, dou butcher hogs were down 50 cents power talks on the Palestine| ol © ag Hollywood -. 24 Radio ...... 39 Weather Map o After Eating Pills packed snow and ice. Driving ams . . » and coe at a bulk average of $23. Market dilemma. Inside Indpls. 21 Mrs. Roos'vit 26 Women's ,. 27] GOSHEN, Ind. Mar. 11 (UP)— hazardous. + bi . id t Unlin spokesmen said, ‘however, - that i oe rr saa . Freddie LeRoy Stingle, 18! Pendleton—In northern part, istable sides: hy fof receipts were not up as much U. 8. INCOMES AT PEAK ! . f . months, died yesterday from eat-| roads wet, but snow not sticking. lin, what a valve here as in other stockyards. WASHINGTON, Mar. 11 (up) Says U. S. Lacks Unified Defense ling pills, a coroner's report said) Putnamville—Light snow over IMAGINE THAT— —Personal income rose to an| WASHINGTON, Mar. 11 (UP) down in controversy” over the! today. part. of ar with some driving "LONDON C11 (UP)—The | J . . | annual rate of $210.8 billion in| Rep. Carl Hinshaw (R. Cal y {Tole of each service. As a result.| B. E. Kintner said that it was hazards ia northern part swnstairs Boor RON Maz 31 today that| BARRED CELL—In this barred cell in the old wing of Ju ®Ha, | January, the Commerce Depart-i™ "FP" " *’ ihe said in a speech in the House, | codeine {n the pills prescribed for| & our—Roads. cove y Russi en Ry a] lies a mental patient. A blanket and a rubber sheet are pinned 10 | ment reported today. This is an charged today that, the nation lacks a unified de- John Stingle, the baby's father, ered with ice and packed snow, rocket propulsion and penicillin. the mattress. These cases receive scant medical attention. all-time high. Iservices unification is “bogged|fense plan. that caused the death. - Driving Say . » * f ¥ % te r L 2 : ¥ v o . : vw - 1 $ 1 - *

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